Posted on 11/04/2021 8:11:47 AM PDT by bitt
Senate Republicans on Nov. 3 filibustered an election bill put forward by Democrats, continuing a longstanding division between the two parties on voting-related legislation.
The mostly party-line vote saw only one defection, as Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) joined Democrats in support of the bill, and is now the only Republican lawmaker to lend support to any of Democrats’ election bills. Vice President Kamala Harris presided over the vote.
“After today’s vote, it’s clear that the modern Republican Party has turned its back on protecting voting rights,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said after the legislation failed to advance.
Schumer gave a grateful nod to Murkowski for supporting the bill, but asked, “Where is the rest of the party of Lincoln?”
The bill, called the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, was originally put forward in the House by Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.). The same legislation was introduced to the Senate at the beginning of October by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.).
In an August opinion piece published in the Montgomery Advertiser, Sewell argued that state-level voter integrity laws are putting the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 “in peril.” Sewell compared the “state-level effort to restrict the right to vote” to “modern-day Jim Crow attacks.”
Primarily, the bill is intended to restore provisions of the VRA that Sewell and other Democrats accuse the Supreme Court of “gutting.”
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Good.
The GOP finally gets off their rears?
Murkowski proving once again that she is an Assistant Democrat.
Murkowski needs to go away.
Good ol Murkowski. Always filling the RINO quota.
No, they are trying to maintain their cover as an opposition party.
“Where is the rest of the party of Lincoln?”
He was called HONEST ABE, not CHEATING ABE!
Democrats in the Senate under the weak, buffoon, retard, empty suit, leadership of their leader, Chuck Schumer who has Zero leadership qualities and ranks among the certified Butt Wipes of the Democrat Party. further sink themselves down the nearest toilet bowl...politically!!!!
Dems, Wake Up, Wase Up, Dump Obama, Biden. Harris, Pelosi & schumer, like right now!!! Otherwise, you is just about finished as a meaningful political a party in this USA!!!
Election, pshhhhhh. They are not going to fix what is broken in America.
Read tagline.
Let it burn so we can start really rebuilding from the ashes.
Great comment!
An assistant who prides herself on helping the party of Jim Crow maintain control over its plantations!
This line is holding but is tenuous. Our only hope is to keep it from breaking and hopefully pull out a win in next year’s mid-terms.
Murkooksie again....what is wrong with the people of Alaska????
She's an embarassment to the state - and country.
after the legislation failed to advance. Schumer...
Good!
Democracy saved...for today, at least.
[Come on AK, do something about Lisa...]
I want to protect Voting RIGHTS——NOT VOTE FRAUD
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